Duggars in the news.

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/josh-duggar-is-missing-from-treatment-center-report/

More speculation - Josh might be in Paragould, Arkansas at the Grace Mission Bible Training Center which offers addiction recovery services.

While it really is none of our business, I’ll admit that at this point the “freak show” - meaning the circus around this whole blow up - has me intrigued to know “Where is Josh?!”

“Where in the World is Joshua James Duggar?”.

I suppose this idle speculation could be a replacement for playing Subway’s Jared’s Dancing Pants game.

Very interesting news:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/jessa-seewald-publicly-sides-with-father-in-law-who-called-josh-duggar-a-pretender/ar-AAdSnTs?ocid=ansmsnent11

It makes sense that she would side with her husband’s family.

^Right, because now that she’s married, her 20 year old husband is the boss of her.

In their culture, it looks like that’s how it is.

And unlike the original it links to, her post is mighty terse.

Her post is a Twitter thingie. The original letter written by her FIL is just that – a lengthy letter.

Now, let’s be fair. Maybe it’s that her husband is the boss of her in this circumstance, so of course she agrees with him. But maybe it’s also, or instead, that she simply sees Josh’s hypocrisy for what it is.

I can’t decide what I think about Jessa doing that.

On the one hand it seems judgmental and piling-on; on the other hand I tend to agree with the general sentiments.

I don’t know . . . :confused:

Fwiw, I saw the link on her FB. I do wonder if she agrees with her husband.

She posted the same link on her Instagram last night. She has had a couple of posts this week that sort of lean towards not being super supportive of Josh as the moment.

And neither are Josh’s parents.

^Josh’s actions cost the family and the hand that feeds it untold millions so yep - not supportive.

^^I could also make the argument that the Duggarnaut basically cost Josh his life as he knows it.

Nobody would care what he did or was doing, other than the people directly affected, if it weren’t for their fame.

The whole thing perplexes me.

It’s like that scene from the Godfather where Michael Corleone tells the obnoxious congressman that “we are all part of the same hypocrisy.”

Nobody would care what Michael Seewald says about it all if weren’t for Jessa’s connection to her family of origin, and her subsequent marriage to Ben.

???

Not to mention the fact that what he did goes against every tenet that they genuinely hold and thought they instilled in their children.

While Ben’s family definitely seems(ed) religious, somehow on the show I felt they were portrayed to not be as stringent at the Duggars - Ben himself seems like a nice guy though sometimes a little “airy”. I could never stand the way Jim Bob treated him - deciding to have him be closer to what seemed to be to “hurry along” the Jessa/Ben relationship but all the while putting him up in a room in the “garage/outbuilding” and having Ben be his chore boy (this is what it seemed like to me - “hey Ben, how ya doin - did you get that list of chores done yet? - it’s 8am!” :slight_smile:

Having two sons myself, that weirded me out a little, too, @abasket .

It almost felt like the Seewalds pimped him out to the Duggars. Then again, he was an adult (wasn’t he?), so it was ultimately his decision.

The whole courting storyline on the show got me sick. These boys were definitely recruited to be slaves to the Duggars. The whole “side hugging” thing made me sick to my stomach, as though the parents were trying to teach them about sex on their double dates. Making women baby machines, in any society, just makes smoke come out of my ears. The only good thing to come out of this whole expose is that they no longer have an audience outside of their family and community to brainwash.